Louise Westmarland
Biographic Data
| ID | 370866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Westmarland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Westmarland |
| SIGNATURE | WESTMARLAND L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9074-2582 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Policing the 2012 London Olympics: Legacy and social exclusion
Policing the 2012 London Olympics: legacy and social exclusion, by Gary Armstrong, Richard Giulianotti and Dick Hobbs, keeps a number of balls in the air in a way that someone with zero interest in
Governance of policing and cultural codes: Interpreting and responding to policy directives
In terms of governance, British policing seems to arise from a history of local traditions influenced more recently by centralist managerial demands. A creeping process of privatisation has led social scientists to argue that patterns of governance in British policing are changing in several directions. This has included the way police officers not only are challenged, but also challenge these changing modes of governance in terms of ethical code…
Police ethics and integrity: Can a new code overturn the blue code
This paper analyses police officer perspectives on the seriousness of potential misconduct or unethical behaviour, and the factors that might shape whether they would report their colleagues’ misdemeanours. It compares responses from police officers in UK three forces, looking at potentially corrupt behaviours described in a series of scenarios. The discussion includes why some types of misdemeanour seem more likely to be reported and the potenti…
Researching Crime and Justice: Tales from the Field
This book provides an introduction to research and some of the methods in the field of crime and justice and related areas, including police, prisons and criminal justice policy making. Less a dry 'how to' book, it is concerned rather to provide a wide-ranging discussion that illustrates the kind of research that has been done in particular areas, the findings of previous studies, the pitfalls of ‘real life’ research (and some potential solutions…
Snitches get stitches’: US homicide detectives’ ethics and morals in action
This paper draws upon evidence from a short but intensive period of ethnographic fieldwork with a specialist homicide squad in a large US city. A range of homicides were observed during the study, and the discussion that follows describes a number of cases in depth and the difficulties the detectives experience in obtaining evidence from witnesses who may be frightened or unwilling to help them. The way they regard these problems and lack of coop…
The Antagonisms of Choice: New Labour and the reform of public services
Choice has emerged as a key idea for the reform of public services in the UK and internationally. This paper explores three sets of problems in the analysis of choice in public policy. First, at what level should we be studying choice (specific mechanisms, national politics, transnational processes and travelling ideas)? Second, what sorts of tendencies, forces and discourses are being mobilised through the politics of choice? Third, we examine t…
Creating Citizen-Consumers: Changing Publics & Changing Public Services
Connecting the gendered door: Women, Violence and Doorwork
This paper explores the emerging role of women who work as 'bouncers', or doorstaff, in the night-time economy and examines how the cultural capital of the female bouncer is connected to the methods utilized to control licensed premises. It is drawn from a study that combined ethnographic observations and interviews in five major UK cities which explored a diverse range of issues such as gendered bodies, femininities and violence; the changing ne…
Police Ethics and Integrity: Breaking the Blue Code of Silence
This article analyzes evidence from a survey of police officers who were asked about their attitudes towards police corruption, unethical behaviour and minor infringements of police rules. It reveals that most of the officers who took part in the study regard certain actions, such as those involving the acquisition of goods or money, as much worse than behaviour involving illegal brutality or bending of the rules in order to protect colleagues fr…
Gender and Policing
Gender and Policing is an innovative study of the real world of street policing and the gender issues which are a central part of this. Derived from extensive ethnographic research (involving police responses to gangland shootings, high speed car chases as well as more routine policing activities), this book examines the way police attitudes and beliefs combine to perpetuate a working culture which is dependent upon traditional conceptions of 'ma…
Challenges of Policing London: A Conversation with the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir John Stevens
This interview explores the career and philosophies of one of the most powerful police commanders in the world, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Sir John Stevens, as the head of this Service, has some innovative and often controversial ideas about how London can be made the "safest capital city in the world". In the following "conversation" he explains the underlying approach to his work and future plans for improving the lives of the…
Gender and policing: Sex, power and police culture
Gender and Policing is an innovative study of the real world of street policing and the gender issues which are a central part of this. Derived from extensive ethnographic research (involving police responses to gangland shootings, high speed car chases as well as more routine policing activities), this book examines the way police attitudes and beliefs combine to perpetuate a working culture which is dependent upon traditional conceptions of ‘ma…
Blowing the Whistle on Police Violence. Gender, Ethnography and Ethics
This article highlights a number of issues related to the witnessing of 'illegal' police violence by researchers. Empirical evidence is drawn from fieldwork conducted for a larger study of police culture, which is the first examination of gender relations in the British police. This extensive ethnographic study is used to highlight the way fieldwork can lead to a number of ethically ambiguous situations. Whether to 'blow the whistle', to express …
Police Ethics and Integrity: Breaking the Blue Code of Silence
This article analyzes evidence from a survey of police officers who were asked about their attitudes towards police corruption, unethical behaviour and minor infringements of police rules. It reveals that most of the officers who took part in the study regard certain actions, such as those involving the acquisition of goods or money, as much worse than behaviour involving illegal brutality or bending of the rules in order to protect colleagues fr…
The Antagonisms of Choice: New Labour and the reform of public services
Choice has emerged as a key idea for the reform of public services in the UK and internationally. This paper explores three sets of problems in the analysis of choice in public policy. First, at what level should we be studying choice (specific mechanisms, national politics, transnational processes and travelling ideas)? Second, what sorts of tendencies, forces and discourses are being mobilised through the politics of choice? Third, we examine t…
Connecting the gendered door: Women, Violence and Doorwork
This paper explores the emerging role of women who work as 'bouncers', or doorstaff, in the night-time economy and examines how the cultural capital of the female bouncer is connected to the methods utilized to control licensed premises. It is drawn from a study that combined ethnographic observations and interviews in five major UK cities which explored a diverse range of issues such as gendered bodies, femininities and violence; the changing ne…
Blowing the Whistle on Police Violence. Gender, Ethnography and Ethics
This article highlights a number of issues related to the witnessing of 'illegal' police violence by researchers. Empirical evidence is drawn from fieldwork conducted for a larger study of police culture, which is the first examination of gender relations in the British police. This extensive ethnographic study is used to highlight the way fieldwork can lead to a number of ethically ambiguous situations. Whether to 'blow the whistle', to express …
Police ethics and integrity: Can a new code overturn the blue code
This paper analyses police officer perspectives on the seriousness of potential misconduct or unethical behaviour, and the factors that might shape whether they would report their colleagues’ misdemeanours. It compares responses from police officers in UK three forces, looking at potentially corrupt behaviours described in a series of scenarios. The discussion includes why some types of misdemeanour seem more likely to be reported and the potenti…
Governance of policing and cultural codes: Interpreting and responding to policy directives
In terms of governance, British policing seems to arise from a history of local traditions influenced more recently by centralist managerial demands. A creeping process of privatisation has led social scientists to argue that patterns of governance in British policing are changing in several directions. This has included the way police officers not only are challenged, but also challenge these changing modes of governance in terms of ethical code…
Snitches get stitches’: US homicide detectives’ ethics and morals in action
This paper draws upon evidence from a short but intensive period of ethnographic fieldwork with a specialist homicide squad in a large US city. A range of homicides were observed during the study, and the discussion that follows describes a number of cases in depth and the difficulties the detectives experience in obtaining evidence from witnesses who may be frightened or unwilling to help them. The way they regard these problems and lack of coop…
Policing the 2012 London Olympics: Legacy and social exclusion
Policing the 2012 London Olympics: legacy and social exclusion, by Gary Armstrong, Richard Giulianotti and Dick Hobbs, keeps a number of balls in the air in a way that someone with zero interest in
Gender and policing: Sex, power and police culture
Gender and Policing is an innovative study of the real world of street policing and the gender issues which are a central part of this. Derived from extensive ethnographic research (involving police responses to gangland shootings, high speed car chases as well as more routine policing activities), this book examines the way police attitudes and beliefs combine to perpetuate a working culture which is dependent upon traditional conceptions of ‘ma…
Blowing the Whistle on Police Violence. Gender, Ethnography and Ethics
This article highlights a number of issues related to the witnessing of 'illegal' police violence by researchers. Empirical evidence is drawn from fieldwork conducted for a larger study of police culture, which is the first examination of gender relations in the British police. This extensive ethnographic study is used to highlight the way fieldwork can lead to a number of ethically ambiguous situations. Whether to 'blow the whistle', to express …
Gender and Policing
Gender and Policing is an innovative study of the real world of street policing and the gender issues which are a central part of this. Derived from extensive ethnographic research (involving police responses to gangland shootings, high speed car chases as well as more routine policing activities), this book examines the way police attitudes and beliefs combine to perpetuate a working culture which is dependent upon traditional conceptions of 'ma…
Challenges of Policing London: A Conversation with the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir John Stevens
This interview explores the career and philosophies of one of the most powerful police commanders in the world, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Sir John Stevens, as the head of this Service, has some innovative and often controversial ideas about how London can be made the "safest capital city in the world". In the following "conversation" he explains the underlying approach to his work and future plans for improving the lives of the…
Police Ethics and Integrity: Breaking the Blue Code of Silence
This article analyzes evidence from a survey of police officers who were asked about their attitudes towards police corruption, unethical behaviour and minor infringements of police rules. It reveals that most of the officers who took part in the study regard certain actions, such as those involving the acquisition of goods or money, as much worse than behaviour involving illegal brutality or bending of the rules in order to protect colleagues fr…
Creating Citizen-Consumers: Changing Publics & Changing Public Services
Connecting the gendered door: Women, Violence and Doorwork
This paper explores the emerging role of women who work as 'bouncers', or doorstaff, in the night-time economy and examines how the cultural capital of the female bouncer is connected to the methods utilized to control licensed premises. It is drawn from a study that combined ethnographic observations and interviews in five major UK cities which explored a diverse range of issues such as gendered bodies, femininities and violence; the changing ne…
The Antagonisms of Choice: New Labour and the reform of public services
Choice has emerged as a key idea for the reform of public services in the UK and internationally. This paper explores three sets of problems in the analysis of choice in public policy. First, at what level should we be studying choice (specific mechanisms, national politics, transnational processes and travelling ideas)? Second, what sorts of tendencies, forces and discourses are being mobilised through the politics of choice? Third, we examine t…
Researching Crime and Justice: Tales from the Field
This book provides an introduction to research and some of the methods in the field of crime and justice and related areas, including police, prisons and criminal justice policy making. Less a dry 'how to' book, it is concerned rather to provide a wide-ranging discussion that illustrates the kind of research that has been done in particular areas, the findings of previous studies, the pitfalls of ‘real life’ research (and some potential solutions…
Snitches get stitches’: US homicide detectives’ ethics and morals in action
This paper draws upon evidence from a short but intensive period of ethnographic fieldwork with a specialist homicide squad in a large US city. A range of homicides were observed during the study, and the discussion that follows describes a number of cases in depth and the difficulties the detectives experience in obtaining evidence from witnesses who may be frightened or unwilling to help them. The way they regard these problems and lack of coop…
Governance of policing and cultural codes: Interpreting and responding to policy directives
In terms of governance, British policing seems to arise from a history of local traditions influenced more recently by centralist managerial demands. A creeping process of privatisation has led social scientists to argue that patterns of governance in British policing are changing in several directions. This has included the way police officers not only are challenged, but also challenge these changing modes of governance in terms of ethical code…
Police ethics and integrity: Can a new code overturn the blue code
This paper analyses police officer perspectives on the seriousness of potential misconduct or unethical behaviour, and the factors that might shape whether they would report their colleagues’ misdemeanours. It compares responses from police officers in UK three forces, looking at potentially corrupt behaviours described in a series of scenarios. The discussion includes why some types of misdemeanour seem more likely to be reported and the potenti…
Policing the 2012 London Olympics: Legacy and social exclusion
Policing the 2012 London Olympics: legacy and social exclusion, by Gary Armstrong, Richard Giulianotti and Dick Hobbs, keeps a number of balls in the air in a way that someone with zero interest in
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)